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        <title>Aluminum Tube Inserts Break</title>
        <description> Recently ordered a new kit and the aluminum tube inserts snap almost immediately, leaving the nyloc nut spinning uselessly inside the tube. It&#039;s then almost impossible to get it off the screw, so I now have the tubes barely attached to the base dibond sheet and no way to remove them or tighten them. Any ideas?</description>
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            <title>Re: Aluminum Tube Inserts Break</title>
            <link>https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?292,304519,305336#msg-305336</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ I found it easier to just tap the alumnium tube and not worry about the nuts.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>cdru</dc:creator>
            <category>Mendel90</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2014 09:21:13 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: Aluminum Tube Inserts Break</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ I did the exact same thing. It happened to only one of them in my case.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Nilez</dc:creator>
            <category>Mendel90</category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 02 Feb 2014 08:55:44 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: Aluminum Tube Inserts Break</title>
            <link>https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?292,304519,304537#msg-304537</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ Fixed it, had to jam a screw into the tube to push against the nut and produce enough friction to keep the nut stationary. Two of the inserts snapped, so I wrapped the last two in a layer of tape to bridge the small space between the plastic insert and the aluminum tube, which worked. Maybe these should be slightly redesigned so they can be printed in a different orientation?]]></description>
            <dc:creator>BrianC</dc:creator>
            <category>Mendel90</category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 01 Feb 2014 15:25:23 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Aluminum Tube Inserts Break</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Recently ordered a new kit and the aluminum tube inserts snap almost immediately, leaving the nyloc nut spinning uselessly inside the tube. It's then almost impossible to get it off the screw, so I now have the tubes barely attached to the base dibond sheet and no way to remove them or tighten them. Any ideas?]]></description>
            <dc:creator>BrianC</dc:creator>
            <category>Mendel90</category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 01 Feb 2014 14:57:41 -0500</pubDate>
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